Ever open up a new Volkswagen and wonder why there are feathers stuck in it? I haven’t, but maybe other people have.

VW’s latest attempt to sell customers on longevity without actually having new cars to promote in 2014 centers around the idea that the bad experience you had with your high school girlfriend’s buggy Jetta are no longer representative of the brand.

Volkswagen has a long, proud history when it comes to that most North American of traditions – the Super Bowl commercial. For this year’s big game – its fifth as a Super Bowl advertiser – VW has a new idea. There is no tiny Vader or Jamaican accents, just a very complex German …

If you thought you were safe on a jungle safari you better think again after watching this terrifying footage of an elephant rolling over a VW.

This was captured in Kruger International park, with the attack being as brutal as it looked.
Sarah Brooks and Jans de Klerk were taken to hospital after the attack as the elephant overturned their car a couple of times, pushing it off the road. In the process the angry elephant’s tusks ripped through the back of Brooks’s upper thigh.

The anonymous person who filmed and shared the video clearly saw that the agitated elephant was going to cause trouble when he flipped his ears and charged towards the Polo Valkswagon. But that behaviour didn’t deter Brooks and De Klerk who kept driving closer to the animal.

The Kruger Park National Park management (rather controversially) shot and killed the elephant to prevent it hurting other people but it has sparked an outcry on social media sites. The same animal had apparently been in previous fights with other animals on the site.

While all car-(…and shoe) making companies participating in the Gran Turismo 6 Vision project have the creative freedom to conceive whatever type of vehicle they want for the series, we imagine that they also want their designs to retain strong ties with their respective brands.

We could be wrong, since for the time being, Volkswagen has limited shared information on its GT6 Vision Concept to the following single sketch, but the first thing we thought upon seeing it was a dynamic and futuristic interpretation of the Scirocco coupe-hatchback. What do you think?

According to the most recent report, VW doesn’t plan to replace the Scirocco with an all new model before 2017, but it will refresh it with a heavy facelift later this year.